Booker's greatest baseball season in school history paid off in dividends Monday with three players named to the Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association 2015 Class 2A all-state baseball team.

NFL veteran Ziggy Hood is coming back home and his football camp is free.
Former Palo Duro High football star Hood, now a defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaquars, will host a USA Football FUNdamentals clinic Saturday at Palo Duro High School.

Billy Hopson was so nervous Friday afternoon he couldn't read his own handwriting.
But using pen or pencil didn't matter during the Class AA doubles competition of The 2015 Texas State Championship Trap Shoot at the Amarillo Gun Club.

The feast or famine Amarillo ThunderHeads are feasting these days.
Backed by a five-run fifth inning that saw a little of everything, Amarillo won its third game in a row by beating Grand Prairie, 6-2, on Monday night at QuikTrip Park.

Michael Cobbins received a call Saturday that took away the breath of the former Palo Duro High basketball star.
Cobbins' agent informed him the Oklahoma City Thunder had invited him to play on their summer league team.

Norman Grimes continues to strike gold in his track career.
Grimes, a senior-to-be at Canyon High School, secured another award as he was recently named the 2014-15 Gatorade Texas Boys Track & Field Athlete of the Year.

Bryan Lintner will be flying with a different bird next basketball season.
The longtime Canyon High Lady Eagles girls basketball assistant was named the head girls basketball coach for the Bushland High Lady Falcons on Tuesday.

Eddie Metcalf is back on the football sidelines.
Well, for one last time.
When Metcalf announced he was retiring last December the 52-year-old who in 11 seasons led Stratford to two state football championships thought his coaching days were over.

Is tennis your thing?
Three tennis tournaments are being offered in the eastern Texas Panhandle and southwest Oklahoma in June.
Wellington opens the first tourney June 5 and 6. A June 12 and 13 tourney will be held in Lawton, Okla.

Because of strong rains, Booker was forced to wait a day to open its Class 2A regional semifinals best-of-three baseball series against Miles on Thursday.
The opening game of the series was set for 5 p.m. Thursday in Plainview.

Jan Munch-Soegarrd has worked as the tennis pro at Amarillo National Tennis Center for more than 20 years.
"I've never seen anything like it," a smiling Munch-Soegaard said on a recent Saturday morning at the center.

Amarillo native Ryan Palmer will tee it up at 1:07 p.m. today in one of his favorite PGA Tour tournaments at the 69th Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial in Fort Worth.
Palmer is a member at Colonial.

AUSTIN - The recent unexpected roller-coaster ride of Norman Grimes' life stopped on a high Friday night.
The Canyon junior won the Class 5A 300 hurdles in a blistering 36.35 seconds at the UIL high school state track and field meet at Mike A.

AUSTIN - The name Christopher Alvidrez will hang in a special place in the Dumas High School Gym - on a banner reserved for state champions.
River Road's Emilee Hillbish doubled her pleasure with two gold medals.

The first Ryan Palmer Junior Golf Invitational will play out over two days on two courses Saturday and Sunday.
The tourney features 17 of the top junior golfers in the Amarillo-area who earned the berths through qualifiers and invitations.

A possible berth in the U.S. Open is at stake at Amarillo Country Club today.
The first step to punch a ticket to play in the U.S. Open starts today with 46 players scheduled to tee it up in the local qualifying portion of the qualifying.

Senior Hunter Hand is no slouch in the classroom, graduating with a 3.78 grade point average and 109th in his Amarillo High class of 522.
He is the AHS student body president and was awarded English II student of the year by the AHS faculty.

Amarillo's Mike Scroggins is on a roll - literally.
Late Tuesday Scroggins won four consecutive stepladder matches to win the PBA50 Johnny Petraglia BVL Open in Farmingdale, N.Y., becoming the season's first two-time winner.

The 50-and-over golfing crowd will have their moment in the sun this weekend.
The popular Ninth Annual Coors Light Senior Partnership - a golfer must be at least age 50 to enter - opens its two-day tournament Friday at Comanche Trail Golf Complex.

Junior golf in the Amarillo area will take center stage later this month with the first Ryan Palmer Junior Golf Invitational.
The two-day tournament set to tee off May 16 and features 15 of the top junior golfers.
It is by invitation only.

Big news for the 44th Jim Hitch Memorial junior tournament in Guymon, Okla.
The Texas Golf Association has formed a new alliance with the June 4 to 6 event providing exemptions into the prestigious Lanny Watkins Junior Championship.

Tascosa junior Markaaisha Richardson is back. Richardson, one of the top girl hurdlers in Amarillo history, had an up-and-down day Saturday, but the high earned her a return trip to the UIL state track meet May 14-16 in Austin.